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  • What is the meaning of culture?

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  • Shared beliefs
  • Any size
  • One person can be part of many cultures

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  • Plains
  • The Mound Builders
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Culture

  • Shared beliefs between a group of people

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  • One person can be a part of many cultures

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  • Can be any size of people

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a few people, a class, a school, a team, a club,

a church, a city, a state, a country, a continent...

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  • Shared beliefs between a group of people

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The environment you live in helps shape your culture

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Each Native American Culture was developed to adapt

to the environment with the resources of their land

  • Housing
  • Food
  • Transportation
  • Clothing
  • Religion/ Rituals/ Traditions/ Spirits
  • Tools

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White Hunters would

usually only take the

skin for furs &

leave the rest

of the buffalo

behind to rot.

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Stacks of Buffalo hides

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The Mounds were mostly used for burial grounds of the dead

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Skeleton remains - built from the bottom up; dirt over them

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Farming was the main source of food for the Mound Builders

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Plains

Where 4 states meet - 4 corners:

New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, & Colorado

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Anasazi Native Americans of the Southwest

Carved homes out of sides of hills & mountains

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The Anasazi lived were 4 states meet today

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  • Plains
  • The Mound Builders
  • The Anasazi

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